Gallinuloides

Gallinuloides is a prehistoric genus of pangalliform bird. It lived about 48 million years ago in North America. The type specimen was found in a Green River Formation deposit in Wyoming.^[1]

Specimen WDC CGR−012

Gallinuloides Temporal range: Early-middle Eocene
Holotype
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Family:	†Gallinuloididae
Genus:	†Gallinuloides Eastman, 1900
Species:	†G. wyomingensis
Binomial name
†Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman, 1900
Synonyms
Gallunoides is a lapsus.

The former Gallinuloides prentici was eventually placed (after a brief stint in Grus) in a distinct genus Paragrus; it is no pangalliform but belongs to the Geranoididae (Lambrecht 1933:520).